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, at 11:15:45 on Fri, 14 Mar 2014, Recliner
remarked:

How do they get there if not by walking or cycling? Every postie I've
encountered does the rounds on foot or by bike, even if they've bought
their own car to get them from the depot to the start of the round.

You've answered your own question...

That's not new; they've been doing it way before the ~5yr horizon
mentioned as when things changed.
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Roland Perry